2000
On Being Brought From Africa to America
Composed by 
Tom Cipullo
Tom Cipullo Text by 
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley Climbing: Poems by African-Americans Song Collection
"On Being Brought From Africa to America" is the first song of Tom Cipullo's song cycle Climbing: 7 Songs on 8 Poems by African-Americans.
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On Being Brought From Africa to America
by Phillis Wheatley
‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.
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